48 monthsProgramme duration
21,900 GBPTuition Fee/year
25 Jul, 2026Application Deadline
Jan, SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Business and Management Studies
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship comprises a group of academic staff with research interests in two related areas: design innovation and entrepreneurship, spanning both commercial and social sectors. This includes research wholly contained within one of these disciplines or bridging both subjects.
The centre has a reputation for a collaborative and participatory approach to teaching and research, ensuring impact for its stakeholders.
The profile of our team, most of whom are both practitioners and scholars, helps to ensure continual collaboration between academic and non-academic applied settings. We, therefore, welcome and encourage students from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Students may join directly from university studies or be experienced professionals, for example, established entrepreneurs or designers.
Our research areas include:
Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Entrepreneurial behaviours
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Entrepreneurship education
- Social justice
- Innovation leadership and culture
- Enterprise education
- Design thinking
- Service design
- Wicked problems
- Social innovation
- Interdisciplinary partnerships
- Drivers of company performance
Design innovation
- Design for sustainability
- Design
- Consumer behaviour
- Design for policy
- Feminist design
- Futures and scenarios
- Human-centred design / prototyping
- UX/interface design / human-computer interaction
- Ethics, governance, and regulation of emerging technologies and AI
- Design for social innovation
- Advertising
- Nature-centred design
For more information visit the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Business and Management Studies
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship comprises a group of academic staff with research interests in two related areas: design innovation and entrepreneurship, spanning both commercial and social sectors. This includes research wholly contained within one of these disciplines or bridging both subjects.
The centre has a reputation for a collaborative and participatory approach to teaching and research, ensuring impact for its stakeholders.
The profile of our team, most of whom are both practitioners and scholars, helps to ensure continual collaboration between academic and non-academic applied settings. We, therefore, welcome and encourage students from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Students may join directly from university studies or be experienced professionals, for example, established entrepreneurs or designers.
Our research areas include:
Entrepreneurship
- Strategy
- Entrepreneurial behaviours
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Entrepreneurship education
- Social justice
- Innovation leadership and culture
- Enterprise education
- Design thinking
- Service design
- Wicked problems
- Social innovation
- Interdisciplinary partnerships
- Drivers of company performance
Design innovation
- Design for sustainability
- Design
- Consumer behaviour
- Design for policy
- Feminist design
- Futures and scenarios
- Human-centred design / prototyping
- UX/interface design / human-computer interaction
- Ethics, governance, and regulation of emerging technologies and AI
- Design for social innovation
- Advertising
- Nature-centred design
For more information visit the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Admission Requirements
PhD: A master's qualification, or be working towards a master's qualification, or international equivalent. Applicants without a master's qualification may be considered on an exceptional basis, provided they hold a first-class undergraduate degree (or international equivalent). Applicants with a non-traditional background may be considered provided they can demonstrate substantial equivalent and relevant experience that has prepared them to undertake their proposed course of study.
English language requirements
If English is not your first language, you will need to reach the requirements outlined in our profile level B.
- Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
- Candidates are required to submit an essay(s) for acceptance
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